George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Micah 3:2
Skins. When some exhorted Tiberius to lay on more taxes, he replied: "a good shepherd must shear the flock, and not tear off the skin." (Suetorius xxxii.)
Skins. When some exhorted Tiberius to lay on more taxes, he replied: "a good shepherd must shear the flock, and not tear off the skin." (Suetorius xxxii.)
WHO HATE THE GOOD AND LOVE THE EVIL - that is, they hate, for its own sake, that which is good, and love that which is evil. The prophet is not here speaking of their “hating good” men, or “loving evi...
THE SECOND PROPHETIC MESSAGE CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Address to the godless princes and judges (Micah 3:1) _ 2. Address to the false prophets (Micah 3:5) 3. The verdict of judgment (Micah 3:9)...
THE UNJUST RULERS AND FALSE PROPHETS OF JUDAH. Micah first addresses those whose official duty it is to know justice, _i.e._ sympathetically, and declares that in fact they love its opposite, and crue...
_THE SINS OF THE PRINCES -- MICAH 3:1-4:_ In a simple, but very sad statement God said, "They love evil and hate good."_ _ Micah encouraged the leaders to listen to God. The princes were unjust and go...
CHAPTER VIII THIRD CYCLE OUTRAGES OF CIVIL OFFICIALS. Micah 3:1-4 RV. And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice? ye who ha...
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; WHO PLUCK OFF THEM SKIN FROM OFF THEM, AND THEIR FLESH - rob their fellow-country...
WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES Micah returns to his indictment against the people's leaders. Their power was given for the sake of justice, and they have abused it for extortion (Micah 3:1). Their time sha...
FROM OFF THEM] i.e. the common people. 4. When God comes to judgment, they will find no mercy....
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 3 SECTION 2 3:1-5:15 MICAH ACCUSES FALSE LEADERS. HE PROMISES THAT A GOOD, FAIR KING WILL COME 3:1-12 THE FALSE LEA...
Good leaders have delight in God’s law (Psalms 1:2; Psalms 19:7-11). But the leaders at the time when Micah lived were different. They hated God’s law. Micah understood the problem. These leaders did...
WHO HATE THE GOOD. — The judges, instead of fulfilling the obligations of their office, whereby they should be “for the people to God-ward,” perpetrated the most flagrant cruelty upon them. Micah comp...
שֹׂ֥נְאֵי טֹ֖וב וְ אֹ֣הֲבֵי _רָ֑ע_† גֹּזְלֵ֤י עֹורָם֙
THE PROPHET OF THE POOR Micah 2:1; Micah 3:1 WE have proved Micah's love for his countryside in the effusion of his heart upon her villages with a grief for their danger greater than his grief for Je...
THE PUNISHMENT OF AVARICE Micah 3:1-12 The princes who as magistrates should have administered justice to others sat around the caldron, casting in the very flesh and skin of the people whom they wer...
Addressing himself directly to the rulers of the people, in this second message the prophet describes their peculiar sin, and announces the coming judgment. He then foretells the coming of the one tru...
Who hate the good, and love the evil; (b) who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; (b) The Prophet condemns the wicked governors not only of covetousness, theft,...
It must have been a sad day with the Church, and indeed the history of those times proves it was, when it was as with the priest, so with the people. A state of general corruption prevailed. Isaiah th...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to Israel, and so far with...
He afterwards subjoins, _But they hate good, and love evil, and pull off the skin _(94) _from my people, the flesh from their bones; _that is, they leave nothing, he says, sound and safe, their rapaci...
The prophet again denounces the heads and princes of Jacob. They should cry unto Jehovah. But He would not hear them. No prophet should enlighten them with the light of His word. The seers should be c...
WHO HATE THE GOOD, AND LOVE THE EVIL,.... Instead of knowing and doing what was just and right; or, directly contrary to their light and knowledge, and the duty of their office, they hated that which...
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Ver. 2. _Who hate the good, and love the evil_] _q.d._ That you know not judgment,...
_Hear, O heads of Jacob_, &c. That the justice of God, in bringing upon them the punishments which he had threatened, might more evidently appear, the prophet here shows that there was no rank of them...
THE SINS OF THE RULERS AND THE DESOLATION OF ZION. Also in this Chapter the discourse is directed to the nobility of the people, who abused the authority of their high official station by oppressing...
Who hate the good and love the evil, doing just the opposite of that which their station required of them; WHO PLUCK OFF THEIR SKIN FROM OFF THEM, as though flaying the children of their people, AND T...
1-8 Men cannot expect to do ill, and fare well; but to find that done to them which they did to others. How seldom do wholesome truths reach the ears of those in high stations or in authority! Those...
WHO HATE THE GOOD: in practice and affection these rulers were directly contrary to what they should have been and done, they hated not only to do good, but they hated the good which was to be done, a...
Micah 3:2 hate H8130 (H8802) good H2896 love H157 (H8802) evil H7451 strip H1497 (H8802) skin...
MICAH'S INDICTMENT OF JUDAH (MICAH 3:1). Micah inveighs first against the leadership of Judah, and then against the prophets who make people err for the sake of money, and the priests who teach for hi...
CONTENTS: Coming judgments of the captivities. The priests and prophets rebuked. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, princes, prophets. CONCLUSION: Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well simply because...
Micah 3:10. _They build up Zion with blood._ The Chaldaic reads, they build up the houses of Zion with blood. They oppress the poor to a premature death, in order to build their town and country house...
_Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel _ CIVIL RULERS I. What civil rulers ought always to be. They ought always to “know judgment,” that is, always practically t...
MICAH 3:1 The Present Injustice and the Future Prospect of Just Rule in Jerusalem. The second section focuses on the corrupt leadership in the house of Israel (Micah 3:1). Jerusalem’s restoration amon...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 3:2 TEAR... EAT... FLAY... BREAK... CHOP. The imagery of cannibalism symbolizes the destructive violence of the leaders against the oppressed (compare Psalms
CRITICAL NOTES.] Punishment is threatened against the heads and leaders of Israel. MICAH 3:1. PRINCES] Administrators of justice. YOU] Above every one. TO KNOW] To regard justice (Isaiah 42:25). Mica...
EXPOSITION VERSE 3:1-5:15 Part II. DENUNCIATION OF THE CRIMES OF THE GRANDEES, FOLLOWED BY A PROMISE OF THE GLORIFICATION OF ZION, THE BIRTH...
Now the Lord speaks of the coming judgment that is going to come against those that have gone into captivity. And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is...
1 Kings 21:20; 1 Kings 22:6; 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 Timothy 3:3; Act
The good — Ye who hate not only to do good, but the good which is done, and those that do it. The evil — Chuse, and delight in, both evil works and evil workers. Who pluck it off — Ye who use the floc...